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All science forums lie to the public.

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They were very contradictory and telling lies about time dilation , it was not my communication skills or listening skills.

 

 

No they weren't. And yes it was.

 

So clearly you don't understand.

Also, when someone calls you stupid or that you lack understanding, then that's only for a particular subject...he or she does not make assumptions concerning your IQ.

 

Ignorant is the precise word to use, not stupid. We prefer nobody calls any person stupid here. Calling someone ignorant implies a temporary and limited situation. Calling a person stupid implies a kind of global idiocy that is inaccurate and insulting.

 

Ideas can be stupid, you can call them that. Oh boy, can they be stupid. ;)

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This is an ethics conversation about discussion forums. It is not the place to be arguing details of specific scientific theories, as I have already noted.

 

Accordingly, several posts have been removed.

 

Also, I would have to say, Pop Science often misrepresents science, and conveys information in a deliberately inaccurate way in order to increase the hysteria factor, and thus lies to the public.

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All Cretans are liars.

 

You should include the whole thing:

King James Bible, Titus chapter 1, verse 12

"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons"

 

So if a Cretan says "All Cretans are liars" what should we include?

Mr Lesser

When one person tells you 'you don't understand', that may be presumptuous.

Even if two or three people tell you that, they may still be presumptuous.

 

But when EVERYBODY tells you that, maybe you should consider that they are right !

 

You should include the whole thing:

King James Bible, Titus chapter 1, verse 12

"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons"

 

So if a Cretan says "All Cretans are liars" what should we include?

No.

You should check out the original from about 400 years earlier.

 

Incidentally, (and a bit off topic- so if you plan to respond, start another thread) if you check, you find lots of things in the Bible that are actually a lot older.

It's as if it was cobbled together from lots of older bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox

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